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murphitup @murphitup · 5d

Degenerative Pixels is showing up again with more thought-provoking songs. Cynical, sarcastic, catchy, playful. The fact of their music existing as AI creations, contrasting with the human-oriented lyrics invites the listener to grapple with a tension between wonder and despair.

murphitup @murphitup · Oct 21

Another big security exploit was discovered, this time in PHP itself. But if you're running on WordPress.com, we've got you covered. https://automattic.com/2026/10/21/your-sites-are-protected-against-the-php2shell-vulnerabilities/

murphitup @murphitup · Oct 20

After all these years, I finally ended up installing Arch Linux on a laptop. Well, sorta… https://omarchy.org/

What was great this time around was handing my AI model SSH access to debug and fix the broken installation). I do not miss spending hours searching blogs and forums for arcane commands to fix broken package links 🙂‍↔️

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murphitup @murphitup · Jun 10

Diving into test assertions is a good way to focus on the verifiability of a PR when doing AI-assisted reviews. Here’s one of the prompts I often use:

please give me a human-readable outline of the
tests we added specifically calling out what they
assert and how as an html doc

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Handling Increases in Test Code

January 13, 2026 5 min read

Code written with AI agents gets substantially more robust when the agent has a feedback loop, like a good test suite. And agents like Claude…

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Freeing Up Flow With Claude Code & Linear MCP

January 12, 2026 5 min read

I’ve been experimenting with using Claude Code to create Linear issues instead of filling them out by hand, and it’s been a bigger workflow upgrade…

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Are they the same object?

October 17, 2024 2 min read

While debugging I needed to know if two references in two separate parts of my codebase were pointing to the same object in memory. According…

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